My girlfriend has never really gamed. But she’s now forced to move less than she would like to (health problem) and she’s getting bored. I was thinking of introducing her to a game or two that we could play together. She’s not the real action game type, and seeing as she has no experience with controller/mouse and keyboard I was thinking starting simple.

I can’t think of anything else than Factorio, as she likes organizing/keeping track of stuff.

Would you recommend against that or have anything better in mind? Let me know!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Start her on Dark Souls so that nothing she plays after will seem difficult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I got a girlfriend a long time ago to give the game a shot. She had played stuff before- she was playing BioShock on Xbox when we met. The rats by the big drake on the bridge literally made her cry. Felt pretty bad.

(We did eventually finish the game together in co-op, but we're long since broken up for largely unrelated reasons)

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 4 points 8 months ago

One of my coworkers at some point told my girlfriend she should go in completely blind when she tried DS1, and I agree with that, but she took it to mean she should under no circumstances allow me to explain the mechanics of the game or the UI. She spent nearly two hours in the Asylum without ever getting to the boss's fog wall because she wouldn't let me explain that picking her weapon up didn't mean she had it equipped. Finally I told her there was a big problem she could easily fix and move on with the game if she'd hear me out, but she still wouldn't hear any of it, and then 30 seconds later I see her on her phone googling "do you need to use a shield in DS1" 🤦‍♀️

It was really frustrating because DS1 is hands down my favorite game, and I fully expected her to give up at some point but she gave up before she actually got to play the game.